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In “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic,” her recent cover story for New York Times Magazine, Linda Villarosa documents the struggles of Black male lover men in Jackson, Mississippi against HIV and AIDS. The scenes she describes of young men newly diagnosed with HIV and nearby death are shocking. The story seems like it should belong to a different era—to 1982, not 2017. Still, after decades of medical neglect shaped by racism, homophobia, and a collective indifference toward poverty, Shadowy gay men in the South and across the region continue to die of a disease that for others has long since turn into a chronic but manageable condition.
Since doctors first began following the epidemic, AIDS has disproportionately devastated African Americans, who contract HIV at higher rates and die faster than any other racial or ethnic community. Reading Villarosa’s article, one gets the sense that Ebony gay men hold been largely passive throughout the AIDS epidemic, too closeted and marginal to take action against the disease. The truth is, however, that a compact but determined number of Black gay AIDS activists have been sounding the alarm about AIDS in Black America—including among Black gay men in the Sout
At a pharmacy in Iowa, a 42-year-old Black gay man couldn’t find a medication he needed. The pharmacist, a white lady, told him they didn’t stock that medication. But while he waited to pay for his other purchases, he saw another customer place the medication he just asked for on the counter.
“I felt really bad,” he said. “I think (when) people place their biases alongside their profession, it makes it difficult to access (health) services.”
One of these services incorporate PrEP, or preexposure prophylaxis, a highly effective prescription medication that prevents the spread of HIV.
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men will receive an HIV diagnosis during their lifetime.
Despite being disproportionately affected by HIV, Black lgbtq+ and bisexual men have one of the lowest rates of PrEP usage across all age groups. Many of them reside in the South, which has the highest number of people living with HIV in the U.S. but very low PrEP uptake due to stigma, amount and homophobia. Other barriers comprise lack of trust in the he
16 queer Black trailblazers who made history
From 1960s civil rights activist Bayard Rustin to Chicago's first woman-loving woman mayor, Lori Lightfoot, Jet LGBTQ Americans have elongated made history with innumerable contributions to politics, art, medicine and a host of other fields.
“As extended as there have been Black people, there possess been Black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J. Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, told NBC News. “Racism combined with the forces of stigma, phobia, discrimination and bias linked with gender and sexuality have too often erased the contributions of members of our community."
Gladys Bentley (1907-1960)
Bentley was a gender-bending performer during the Harlem Renaissance. Donning a superior hat and tuxedo, Bentley would sing the blues in Harlem establishments favor the Clam House and the Ubangi Club. According to a belated obituary published in 2019, The New York Times said Bentley, who died in 1960 at the age of 52, was "Harlem's most famous lesbian" in the 1930s and "among the best-known Black entertainers in the United States."
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Rustin was an LGBTQ and civil rights activist best known f
Black LGBT Adults in the US
Executive Summary
Over 11.3 million LGBT adults live in the U.S.They are a part of every community throughout the country and are diverse in terms of personal characteristics, socioeconomic outcomes, health status, and lived experiences. In many ways, LGBT people are similar to their non-LGBT counterparts, but also show differences that illuminate their unusual needs and experiences related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
About 40% of LGBT adults are people of dye, including 12% who identify as Black.In this report, we analyzed data from several sources to provide information about adults who self-identify as Black and LGBT. We introduce an overview of their demographic characteristics and focus on several key domains of well-being, including mental health, physical health, economic health, and social and cultural experiences. In addition, we compared Black LGBT and non-LGBT adults across these indicators in order to scout differences related to sexual orientation and gender identity among Black Americans. For several key indicators, we also compared Black LGBT and non-LGBT women and Black LGBT and non-LGBT men in order to travel diff